July 16, 2017 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Commitment: Wellness for the Entire Person

lmost two years ago, we began talking about how we want to assist our Parish Family’s wellness focus, the healthy balance of mind, body, soul, and spirit. When a group of people come together in worship and communion with each other, it makes such a positive Aimpact on each individual. Wellness is at the heart of all our new initiatives, from the Farmers Market to the Life Center, to our new CYO and CAO Programs. One international effort for wellness that we have utilized is called Blue Zones. Blue Zones are places around the world where people have been able to live longer and happier lives based on their personal habits and their interaction within their community. One of the unique traits for Blue Zones from other Wellness programs is that belonging to a faith-based group and attending services regularly is actually a core requirement (part of the Power 9 seen here). The Blue Zones Project is free of charge to the people in a region, as a corporate sponsor pays for the entire project. The Naples Community Hospital is the generous sponsor for Southwest Florida. St. John became the first Religious Organization to have scored above 32 points in the Blue Zone program, through our existing and planned activities that promote the health and wellness of our Parish Family. We only need about 150 more participants in the Blue Zone commitment from our church in order to be fully recognized as a Blue Zone certified Religious Organization, the first Catholic Church to reach that goal. There will be NCH and St. John Blue Zone representatives available after Mass this weekend outside the church so you Zumba classses are offered here on Monday, Wednesday, and can ask questions, get more information, and even sign the Saturday mornings at 9:00 a.m. in the ballroom. commitment to working with us all to foster wellness for all our bodies, our minds, our souls and our spirits. However, if you would rather sign the Commitment Form online, go to: https://southwestflorida.bluezonesproject.com/pledge?c=eDVuZUdmd1lza0lzdXdWRmJh&t=FAITH 625 111th Avenue North, Naples, FL 34108 • Phone 239.566.8740 • Fax 239.566.9117 www.sjecc.com • E-mail: [email protected] Daily Mass: 8:30 a.m.; Wednesday Evening: 6:30 p.m.; Saturday Mass: 8:00 a.m. Weekend Masses: Saturday Vigil: 3:00 & 5:00 p.m. — Sunday: 7:00, 9:00, 11:00 a.m., 1:00 & 5:00 p.m. Scan this tag with your smartphone to view our mobile website. Mass for Deceased (+) and Special Intentions (SI) Requested by SPECIAL OBSERVANCES July 15, 2017 Saturday AND READINGS FOR THE WEEK 8:00 AM + Carol Seay Bruce & Peg Reale Saturday, July 15, 2017

St. Bonaventure Saturday Vigil Masses for Sunday Gn 49:29-32; 50:15-26a; Ps 105:1-4, 6-7; Mt 10:24-33 3:00 PM + Fred “Fritz” Fromert Janet D’Addario

5:00 PM + Gene Zilavy Nancy Zilavy Saturday Vigil Mass for Sunday Is 55:10-11; Ps 65:10-14; Rom 8:18-23; July 16, 2017 Sunday Mt 13:1-23 [1-9]

7:00 AM + Fran Purcell Catherine Sblendorio 9:00 AM + Fred “Fritz” Fromert Kay Reid Sunday, July 16, 2017 11:00 AM For Our Parishioners Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

1:00 PM + Rolin Rodriguez Millie Rodriguez & Family Is 55:10-11; Ps 65:10-14; Rom 8:18-23; 5:00 PM + Peter Acerbi Peter’s Wife Mt 13:1-23 [1-9]

July 17, 2017 Monday Monday, July 17, 2017 8:30 AM SI Special Intention of Iris Horey Ex 1:8-14, 22; Ps 124:1b-8; Mt 10:34 — 11:1

July 18, 2017 Tuesday Tuesday, July 18, 2017 8:30 AM + Merle V. Martin John Martin St. Camillus de Lellis Ex 2:1-15a; Ps 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34; Mt 11:20-24

July 19, 2017 Wednesday 8:30 AM + Peter Acerbi Sylvia Kidd (The Kidd Family) Wednesday, July 19, 2017 6:30 PM + Cissy Prentiss Cheryl Horbal Ex 3:1-6, 9-12; Ps 103:1b-4, 6-7; Mt 11:25-27

July 20, 2017 Thursday Thursday, July 20, 2017 8:30 AM “Novena Mass for Life - For a greater respect for all human life” St. Apollinaris

Ex 3:13-20; Ps 105:1, 5, 8-9, 24-27; Mt 11:28-30 July 21, 2017 Friday 8:30 AM + Richard Organisciak Joseph DeJesus Friday, July 21, 2017

St. Lawrence of Brindisi July 22, 2017 Saturday Ex 11:10 — 12:14; Ps 116:12-13, 15, 16bc, 17-18; Mt 12:1-8 8:00 AM + William Schultz The Family

Saturday, July 22, 2017 Saturday Vigil Masses for Sunday St. Mary Magdalene 3:00 PM + Mr. & Mrs. John Shea Kathy & Ginger Ex 12:37-42; Ps 136:1, 23-24, 10-15; Jn 20:1-2, 11-18

5:00 PM + Janice O’Connor Douglas O’Connor Saturday Vigil Mass for Sunday July 23, 2017 Sunday Wis 12:13, 16-19; Ps 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16; 7:00 AM + Jerry Lane Mr. & Mrs. Gus Schieszler Rom 8:26-27; Mt 13:24-43 [24-30] 9:00 AM + Anne Decarmine Carol Nucci 11:00 AM For Our Parishioners Sunday, July 23, 2017 1:00 PM + Elizabeth Mullally Ann Mullally Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 5:00 PM + Jerry Monroe Ferreira Family Wis 12:13, 16-19; Ps 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16; Rom 8:26-27; Mt 13:24-43 [24-30]

Holy Communion Available for the Hospitalized and Homebound. Any parishioner FREE Nursery Care for children ages 1 to 5 available during the following Mass times: Saturday Vigil 5:00 p.m. who would like to receive Holy Communion while he/she is in the hospital or and Sunday at 9:00 and 11:15 a.m. The nursery is located unable to get to Mass from his/her home may do so by calling in the PLC, classrooms 5 and 6. A trained childcare the parish office, 566.8740, or emailingemministry@sjecc. provider is in attendance during these nursery hours. com. An Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist will bring Holy Communion at a mutually agreed upon time. Please note that the Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist bring Holy Communion to North Naples NCH on Monday through Friday and to Landmark Hospital, North Naples on Wednesday and Sunday.

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C ampaign C orner July 16, 2017 “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can,And wisdom to know the difference.” — Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr

New Lighting Around the Campus for Safety Improvements Include Memorial Garden Renovation While we continue with the major renewal of the St. John campus for our Parish Family, we wanted to provide specific improvements to the exterior lighting of all the areas we walk through. It is important to create a consistent lighting environment to remove the dark areas where it is difficult to see, park, and walk. With less changes in lighting, it will be easier on your eyes to adjust when traveling outside and you will be comfortable in seeing the entire pathway to and from your car. You will see the start of this new lighting system in the newly structured front parking lot, and we have plans to implement it throughout the rest of the campus.

This opportunity to renovate the exterior lighting gave us a chance to take a look at all our walkways as well. We listened to the feedback of both the late-night dancers and the 7:00 a.m. Mass-goers. The pathway lighting is sadly lacking when it comes to safely illuminating our campus. A new light system is necessary to resolve these issues. We have chosen a new post-light and bollard system for our campus lighting that will provide the same consistency and visibility as our new parking lot lights. We will be installing these over the next few months, as part of the campus renovations.

One location in particular will require very special attention: our Memorial Garden. The new lighting system will provide a safe and inviting environment for those who visit their friends and loved ones between dusk and daybreak. However, the installation must be done extremely carefully. Our first and primary responsibility is to our deceased and their loved ones. This installation will require new electrical infrastructure. We will need to stage the installation in sections around the Memorial Garden where we will pull cabling under the walkways. This will create times where the Memorial Garden will be under renovation. This will not impact the ability to use the Memorial Garden for Interments, but may make it difficult to visit at times. We will ensure to always put signage up during worktimes so you will not be surprised if we are digging or working within the Garden. We anticipate this work will begin in August, and it may continue for some time, depending on the schedule of activities like funerals, that may impact the project.

As we Build Our Future, Serve Our Past, we still need all the gifts, prayers, and support of our Parish Family to reach our Pinnacle Goals. If you have any questions, please contact Joe Lichwalla, the Campaign Coordinator at 239.495.2001 or email: [email protected].

Jean-Paul Boucher, General Manager [email protected] July 16, 2017 ~ Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 3 Parish Clergy Contact Information St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church Business Office is located in the PAC 625 111th Avenue North, Naples, FL 34108 (behind the Church) Phone: 239.566.8740 • Fax: 239.566.9117 All Administrative Staff 239.566.8740 www.sjecc.com General Manager Administrative Office Hours are: Jean-Paul Boucher: [email protected] Monday - Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Parish Secretary Deborah Marsh [email protected] Sacrament of Reconciliation Front Office Manager Saturday 8:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Fr. John J. Ludden, Pastor Tricia Schwarz [email protected] (until all are heard) Fr. Robert Murphy Associate Pastoral Musician and Liturgist Fr. Paul D’Angelo Associate Gary Prettyman [email protected] Mass Schedule Deacon Hal Brenner Artistic Director Daily Mass: Jennine Fuentes [email protected] Deacon Forrest Wallace Monday-Friday: 8:30 a.m. Deacon Frank Paniccia Senior Status Sacristan & Martha’s Guild Lan Tran [email protected] Wednesday Evening: 6:30 p.m. Altar Servers: Director of Family Mission Saturday: 8:00 a.m. Jean-Paul Boucher [email protected] Jean-Paul Boucher [email protected] Arts & Liturgical Environment: Saturday Vigil Masses: Parish Publications/Bulletin Editor Kay and Andy Sanfelippo Kathy Sims [email protected] 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. [email protected] CYO Social and Spiritual Eucharistic Ministry [email protected] Sunday Masses: Coordinator Mass 7 : 0 0 a . m . , 9 : 0 0 a . m . , 1 1 : 0 0 a . m . & 1 : 0 0 p . m . Kyle VanDuser [email protected] Maureen Reed [email protected] 5:00 p.m. Contemporary Mass Memorial Garden Homebound Jean-Paul Boucher [email protected] Lisa Godlasky [email protected] Hospital Bookkeeper For Our Records Karen Beebe [email protected] Mary Ellen Metro [email protected] We need your help to keep our records current. Lectors Ministry Divine Gift Boutique If there are any births, deaths, marriages, moves, L. Philip Baier [email protected] Elaine deLaurentis [email protected] etc. in your family, please notify the front office at Greeters & Ushers: Facilities 239.566.8740 or email: [email protected] Bill Fuller [email protected] 239.566.8740, dial 0 Thank you! Education Staff Sacraments of the Church* Choirs: Director of Religious Education Sacrament of Baptism. The Diocese requires Gary Prettyman: [email protected] Natalie Campbell: [email protected] that parents seeking baptism for their child Adult Choir of St. John the Evangelist. attend a baptism preparation class. To schedule Coordinator, Adult Faith Rehearsals Wednesdays, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. a baptism class, parents must be registered Formation & RCIA Residents and seasonals welcome. practicing members of St. John’s for a minimum Jack Kindsvater: [email protected] Children’s Choir of St. John the Evangelist. of two months. Deborah Marsh: [email protected] Rehearsals Wednesdays, 5:00 to 5:45 p.m. Sacrament of Matrimony. Those who wish to be Grades 1-5. married in our parish must complete the Marriage Preparation Program. The Diocese requires a six Contemporary Choir of St. John the Evangelist. month notice. Tricia Schwarz: [email protected] Rehearsals Sundays, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Anointing of the Sick/Funeral Arrangements. Grades 6-12 especially welcome. Call the parish office. If the office is closed the answering machine will provide an emergency Hospitality. Volunteers serve light refreshments phone number for you to reach a priest. Parish Registration for parishioners who gather after the 9:00 Parish Registration Forms are available and 11:00 a.m. Sunday Masses for sharing, on the tables in the church narthex, in communicating and extending fellowship. If *For complete information on the Sacraments, the parish office and on the website: interested in helping contact Elida Gil or Darlene please visit our website: www.sjecc.com www.sjecc.com Follese: [email protected] or 239.566.8740

Mass Intentions. We are now accepting 2018 intentions. Parish Mission Statement Altar Flowers and/or Host & Wine. We have 2017 wine and host and flowers availability. Stop by the parish office to offer the wine and host and/or the altar flowers in memory or in To Know, To Love, and To Serve God honor of your loved ones. in His Church and Our Community. Parish Information… Operational 4 Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church • www.sjecc.com • [email protected] @sjecc With Your Help We Can Make 40,000 Meals for Refugees in 60 Minutes or Less

Right here at Saint John the Evangelist we are providing an opportunity for our parishioners and the Naples community at large to make a huge impact for those who are suffering around the world. We will host our second annual meal-packing event where we hope to make 40,000 individual ready-to-serve meals for our brothers and sisters in Burkina Faso. We need people of all ages from St. John and the Naples community to come out and help pack these meals on Thursday, August 10 at 5:30 p.m. The event is sponsored by Catholic Relief Services as part of their Helping Hands Service, which provides meals to refugee camps and starving families internationally. Last year, with the help of 320 individuals, we packed enough meals to feed 20,000 people in 46 minutes. Please RSVP with the link below if you, your friends, and your family are able to assist. This is a community-wide effort so please invite and bring everyone you know. If you are unable to come to the event on August 10, but would like to donate money in order to help us reach our goal, you may do so using the link below as well. To register or donate, visit: http://helpinghands.crs.org/events/sjecc2017/

photos from last year’s event July 16, 2017 ~ Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 5 #ToKnow #ToLove #ToServe Parish Mission & Life

#ToKnow, #ToLove, #ToServe – by Jean-Paul Boucher Convocation of Catholic Leaders General Manager [email protected] Day 2: Landscape and Renewal

There is no doubt that the U.S. Catholic Church is in the midst of a radical transformation. It is not enough to sit back, and just keep maintaining the church we have. We must be missionary in accompaniment, as the Holy Father our nature, a permanent state of outwardly explains, leads others closer to God as living our joyous faith. That is the state in “a pilgrimage with Christ to the Father.” which the Convocation of Catholic Leaders Missionary discipleship demands “drawing have provided this background: nearer to others,” including drawing “near Jesus’ call to missionary to new forms of poverty discipleship has been and vulnerability, in sustained in and which we are called to answered by his Church recognize the suffering over the centuries. Christ.” Pope Francis’s Following the Second vision of missionary Vatican Council, Bl. conversion and pastoral Paul VI issued a call accompaniment is central for the whole Church to the Convocation. to embrace anew her fundamental mission We started Day 2 with of evangelization. St. prayers for the opening John Paul II amplified of our minds, hearts, and and deepened this call souls for the message with an emphasis on and mission of the the need to undertake a Convocation. Archbishop new evangelization, an Wenski, the only Bishop emphasis continued and in Florida who is native to strengthened by Pope the state (and he reminded Benedict XVI and now Pope Francis. us of that fact), opened the day with a wonderful introduction to the current landscape of both the US Church and the overall In Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis encouraged the society of the nation. He clearly illustrated Pope Francis’ focus Church to enter a “new phase of evangelization” as of the Church as a Field Hospital is the core structure that must missionary disciples—a phase marked by ongoing be put in place. A keynote from Boston College professor Dr. “missionary conversion.” This is the motivation and context Ospino, who spoke about the constantly changing environment for the Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the of the Catholic Church in the US. It has actually been constant Gospel in America. The Holy Father teaches that, “The historically, we just so happen to be at a moment of significant Gospel joy which enlivens the community of disciples is change. The new wave of immigrants from all different a missionary joy” (EG, no. 21). Each of us is called to cultures is impacting all parishes in some way. He stated that witness Christ to the world. At the Convocation, bishops 60% of Catholics in the U.S. under 18 are Latino. If we do not and other Catholic leaders will “devote the necessary effort connect people in their communal life both to their faith and to advancing along the path of a pastoral and missionary to the parish life, they will not prioritize their faith, allowing conversion which cannot leave things as they presently for the “disconnection” of religion, makes caring about others are.” someone else’s problem. The pastoral and missionary conversion called for by Pope Francis includes an initiation into the “‘art of accompaniment’ which teaches us to remove our sandals before the sacred ground of the other (cf. Ex 3:5).” This Parish Mission & Life continues on page 7

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Parish Mission & Life continued from page 6 Cardinal Wuerl of Washington DC provided the definition of a Missionary Disciple. He provided 5 key characteristics: The panel discussion provided a great representation of the landscape of the U.S. Catholic Church, and all the challenges 1. Boldness/Courage we all face together. The most important word was “together”. 2. Connection to the Church Not just accepting diversity, but welcoming in and allowing 3. Sense of Urgency that diversity (culture, race, age, sex, ideas, and all the forms 4. Compassion/Mercy of diversity) to challenge and change the parish. From a Bronx 5. Joy priest to a Georgetown CARA researcher, all the message was Can we all see those characteristics in ourselves, our ministries, the same: showing the joy of the Catholic Church through and our daily efforts in the world? That is the plan of the reaching the peripheries. Youth, young adults, immigrants, Catholic Church in the United States. nones, working poor, and countless others that do not feel welcome or engaged in the church. How do we reach them with the true message that Jesus loves them for who they because God made them in love.

Breakout sessions followed, discussing the nones, people who no longer identify themselves as religious or part of a religious organization, as well as what is working (and not) in the current environment of parishes and ministry today. What tremendous discussions.

The afternoon session was called the Radical Call to Missionary Discipleship. There are several major words in that title. The panel defined “radical” as the uncompromising desire to go out and get to the heart Registration for Summer 2017 CYO and CAO of the matter, the root of the life we are accompanying. Arts and Music Classes is open! Bishop Caggiano of Bridgeport, who clearly We are offering the following classes during the summer. communicated his Italian Please register as soon as possible to ensure that your class of roots, said our whole role interest is offered. in the world is to create an CYO: invitation to our homes, and like any good host, we Ballroom Dance on Wednesdays at 4pm beginning July 26 should clean our house, Improv Comedy on Mondays at 7pm beginning July 24 makes sure there is enough Art and Painting on Thursdays at 10am beginning July 20 food for everyone, and Singing Lessons on Fridays at 4:30pm beginning June 30 ensure that everyone who Guitar Lessons on Sundays at 3:15pm beginning July 2 comes feels like family. additional summer offerings: What a great analogy for Keyboard/Piano 1 (open to all beginners) on Saturdays our Parish Family. at Noon beginning July 29 Keyboard/Piano 2 (by invitation or audition only) on Saturdays at 10am beginning July 29

CAO: Ballroom Dance on Wednesdays at 5pm beginning July 26 Painting Class on Saturdays at 11:15am beginning July 29 Vocal/Cantor Training on Fridays at 3pm beginning June 30 Guitar Lessons on Saturdays at 1pm beginning July 22

Register online on our website or at the parish office! Don’t miss out on these special summer classes being offered just for you! Email [email protected] for more information. July 16, 2017 ~ Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7 PARISH COUNCILS: Divorced and Separated Support Group. Phyllis Crivelli: [email protected] or 239.594.1148 or Barbara Arthur: 239.250.4162 Building and Grounds Council. The scope Our mission is to become the light in the life of the Buildings and Grounds Council is to of separated/divorced Catholics by giving them St. Vincent de Paul. To help the poor, provide future direction, advice, and insight for a sense of inclusion in our parish family and specifically people in zip codes 34108, 34109 the physical plant of Saint John the Evangelist, providing support and guidance through our and 34110. Members work in teams making to include all buildings, the grounds, and shared spiritual journey. We meet Wednesdays home visits to those in need. Many times it all utilities therein. The Council will meet and Thursdays. Please call for more information means helping individuals with rent payment, quarterly to evaluate any long-term strategy Lhara Echeverria: 239.293.3694 or lhariza@ late electrical or water bills, prescription needs planning that is required to provide such a yahoo.com or Beth Lucci: 239.877.6254 and food. Meets first and third Tuesdays after large and complex environment with multiple Faith and Wine. Provide interesting and 8:00 a.m. Mass. Bill Smart: (SVdP Office): purposes. Council President: Bill Siostrom: thought provoking speakers monthly with food 239.775.1667 [email protected] or 239.566.8314 and fellowship for women in the Diocese. Vocations Ministry. Vocations are a calling Finance Council. The Finance Council Info: [email protected], or from God and each of us has one, from single is an integral part of the Stewardship Nancy Squittieri: [email protected] or or married life to religious life. Help the Parish responsibilities of the parish. The council 239.566.8740 Family educate and identify vocations through assists the Pastor and General Manager in their Grief Support Ministry. Grief facilitators prayer and activities. Marty Gautier: marty@ deliberation and decision-making process in hold support groups as needed to give support naples.net or 239.370.4277 order to serve the needs of the Parish in the to those suffering a loss. Leo Gallagher: prudent administration of its resources and 239.594.1535 Knights of Columbus Councils: funds. Council President: Barbara Kuryea: [email protected] or 239.513.9952 Jamaica Outreach Program. JOP has been Knights of Columbus Arthur J. Corr an integral part of Saint John the Evangelist Assembly 3308. Meets second Thursday of Pastoral Stewardship Council. The major since 1997. Our mission is to help the poor in every month at 7:00 p.m. Visiting Knights responsibilities of St. John’s stewardship Jamaica. JOP provides goods, food, medical- are invited. S/K Jim McDonald: jmcd708@ program falls under the purview of the Pastoral vision-dental services, education and basic comcast.net or 239.947.6454 Stewardship Council. The Council’s mission support to improve the lives of the poor in Knights of Columbus St. John Council is to create awareness of God’s gifts of time, Jamaica. We welcome new volunteers. For 11281. Worldwide Catholic men’s fraternal talent and treasure and to encourage their more info: Jeanne Stamant: 239.248.3248 or organization founded on the principles of use to the best of one’s ability for the good [email protected] of the Parish. The Council has three major Charity, Unity, Fraternity and Patriotism. St. subcommittees: Hospitality, Sharing, and Time Ladies of Charity. Volunteer in Immokalee John’s Council provides regular financial and Talent. Council President: Rick Beebe: schools, the Guadalupe soup kitchen and support for our seminarians and our parish. [email protected] or 239.597.2086 clothing bank. The Ladies also visit local Knights also conduct a wide variety of nursing homes to assist residents who want activities to enhance and strengthen family MEET OUR MINISTRIES: to attend Mass. In addition, they are available life in the parish. Meets first Monday of the to provide friendly visits and to perform Arimatheans. Arimatheans attend funeral month. Officers at 6:30 p.m; business meeting simple errands for the elderly and homebound. Masses and memorial services to provide at 7:15 p.m. Visiting Knights are welcome. Meets the second Friday of every month. support and compassion. Toni Biordi: Grand Knight Ed Phelps: [email protected] or Homebound: Diane Pesce: 630.571.0707. 239.597.1966. 239.339.3847 To join: Carole Mancini: froglady505@gmail. Knitting & Crocheting. Knits and crochets Circle of Comfort. If you have cancer, or com 239.370.1521 are taking care of someone who does, you to benefit those in need. Make baby hats booties and blankets for babies, lap robes may be facing challenges that may leave you Men’s Club and Ladies Auxiliary. Organizes, for nursing homes, prayer shawls, baptismal feeling overwhelmed, frightened, alone and in cooks, orders and serves food and beverages blankets and sweaters for kids. Meets year- need of comfort. Let us share our experience and otherwise provides staff and support round on Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m. - Noon. of faith, strength and prayer with you. We for a multitude of parish and parish-related No experience necessary. Vicki Brenner: help each other live one day at a time through functions. It hosts the parish picnic, Children 239.498.9900 encouragement, prayer, laughter or whatever Easter Egg Hunt, and the men work closely it takes to bring comfort to each other. Jim with the Family Ministry at many of their Women of the Word (WoW). We welcome or Darlene Follese: [email protected] or events. Monthly meetings 2:00 p.m. on the any woman of any age to study our faith using 239.566.8740 second Thursday from October to May. Jack the Bible and other Catholic writings in a non- Companion Driving Ministry. To promote Nalipinski: 412.613.3551 judgmental, supportive community. Thursday 9:30 a.m. Nancy Bouchard: 443.498.8452 or a sense of love and belonging for every Respect Life. Educates and informs the parish [email protected] member of our Parish Community by offering community on all aspects of respect life, which transportation to church services regardless of include the unborn, mothers who have had age, infirmity, marital or socioeconomic status. abortions, the elderly, mentally challenged, To sign up for a ride or to become a volunteer the physically challenged, the imprisoned, driver: Beth Lucci: [email protected] or and the terminally ill and the poor and hungry. 239.877.6254 Rosemary Erickson: [email protected] or 239.250.0432 Divine Gift Boutique (located across from the Sewing Ministry. Meets to sew for needy restrooms). Non-Season Hours: Saturday from children of Collier County on Wednesdays 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., Sunday from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. from October to May. 1:00 p.m. If interested in volunteering, contact Meets in the Youth Room of the Claussen Elaine deLaurentis: [email protected] or Family Center. New members welcome. 239.228.3921 Accepts fabric, notions, monetary donations.

Check the Event Sheets on the building doors for the meeting location of the group. Groups Parish Ministries… do not always meet in the same location from week to week. 8 Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church • www.sjecc.com • [email protected] @sjecc Boy Scout Troop 226 – St. John the Outreach & Other Groups Gambler’s Anonymous. 1-800-ADMIT-IT Evangelist. Prepare boys to make ethical Habitat for Humanity. Koulloheras:nick@ and moral choices over their lifetimes by AA. Robert: 239.287.2442 instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath Al-Anon. Carol: 804.306.5323 and hfhcollier.com and Law. Meets on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. Juliette: Lysack Mah Jong. Space Limited. Lanelle Bishop: [email protected] Narcotics Anonymous. 888.435.7301 239.352.1860 Cub Scout Pack 226 – Chartered at St. Cursillistas. Robyn DeVille: 239.253.6275 or Pinochle. Joseph DeJesus: 239.598.9865 John the Evangelist. Provide families with [email protected] Recovering Couples Anonymous. Britta: an opportunity to raise their young boys in the 239.348.5031 or Roger: 239.250.6888 way of Jesus and through the formative values of Scouting. Meets on Mondays at 6:30 p.m. PRAYER LIST [email protected] We remember those who have died recently, especially: Hiroshi Chiwaki, Ingeborg Corbett, Mary Ellen Wheeler and Paul J. Zaino rayer roups P G May they rest in eternal peace. Pray The Rosary & The Chaplet of Divine Mercy Carol Swank 757.559.4761 Please pray for those on our prayer list below as well as those whose names appear on our Cenacle of Life Prayer Group online Prayer List at http://saintjohntheevangelist.com/ministries/prayer-list. Patricia Bucalo: 239.248.0694 Divine Will Prayer Group Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by PRAYER and petition, with Gorana Saner: 239.293.1765 thanksgiving, present your requests to God. – Philippians 4:6 Centering Prayer/Lectio Divina Mary Alligood Rosie Heyer Renee Rake Mondays at 5:30 p.m.: Maria Jones: Kaylee B Donald Howe Ruth Rechtsteiner 239.348.5361 Jean Balliro Krista Leigh Kozowyk Ellen Roberts Liturgy of the Hours Beagan Family Rene Lacoste Lloyd Sample Phyllis Gryskiewicz: After 8:30 a.m. Mass. Richard Becker Jean Lydon Lisa Sanfelippo [email protected] Joey Blazer Diane Maloney Shelia Scaduto Gallen Boardman Margie Lynch Gary Schutebach Brian Bodnar Maria and Family Thomas Sissman Lori Breyman Barbara Marsh John Smith THROUGH THE DARKNESS Caeleigh Brown Donna Massee Avery Smithies BRING US TO THE LIGHT Connie Cahill Kevin McDonagh Nancy Stewart Please pray for our loved ones who are serving in Frank Comeriato J. McG William Strouse the military: Lauren Carr Paul McIntyre Edward Sullivan Adam Decker Joan Clark Cynthia McLemore Rita Taranto Nick Detloff Anthony D’Antuono Carolyn McNichols William J. Teplica Sp. Douglas Hennessy Mark DaBronzo Anne Michaels Isaiah Thompson Donald Demski Eileen Miner Marilyn Thyen Staff Sgt. Brian Holmes Florence Demski Lorrie Morrison Helen Thornburg Marine Colonel Brian Howlett Janet Engleman Bettina Nugent JoAnn Tinevra Sgt. Larry Oldenburg - U.S. Army (Iraq) Jim Follese Emma O’Rourke Lawrence A. Varone Austin Spagnola Jeff Gatt Ronald J. Parker Mike Walsman Genel Family Michael Paul Kirsten Wills George Gonser Jr. Anne Perrino Nancy Wise Jayne Hagg Ann Petrillo Don Hauptman Noreen Prine Gerard Heyer Irene Pires Note: In order to place a name on our Military Prayer List, that individual (the individual to be prayed for), must Prayer List Consent Form Last Updated: January 30, 2017 provide us with a signed release (or email-based approval) prior to the Prayer List Participant: ______inclusion of his/her name in the printed Military Prayer List. Contact Phone Number: ______Contact Name: ______See the Consent Form to the right or visit our website to download a form: I understand and agree to all of the above. http://sjecc.com/forms Signature Date

Thnk you for your understanding. Parish Acknowledgement

General Manager Signature Date Let Us Pray… July 16, 2017 ~ Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 9 Next Worldwide Marriage Encounter for Happily Married Couples Is August 25-27 A seven-week grief support group began at St. John last week, What have you done for your marriage today? Successful July 11. Additional sessions will be held July 18, July 25, August marriages don’t work on automatic pilot – at least not 1, August 8, August 15, and August 22. The gathering will for long. Like a garden, they require constant attention: be from 10:00 -11:30 a.m. each Tuesday and will meet in the fertilizing, watering, and weeding. Healthy marriages, like Claussen Family Center. Anyone who has suffered the loss of gardens, don’t die suddenly. More often they fade away from a loved one is welcome to attend, even after missing the first a gradual lack of attentiveness, letting things slide, taking session. each other for granted. There is no fee, but pre-registration is required. To register, Join us for a Worldwide Marriage Encounter and discover please call Geralyn Poletti at Catholic Charities at 455.2655 or for God’s plan for joy, romance and passion in your marriage. individual assistance call the Parish Office at 239.566.8740. Join us on the next Worldwide Marriage Encounter weekend August 25-27 at the Franciscan Center. Space IS limited, so Any parishioner who needs individual grief support or immediate apply early! For more information about taking a private time assistance may contact the parish office to set up an appointment away, check out flwc-wwme.org or call 813.270.7832. with one of our priests.

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$550,000.00 $402,421.20 $500,000.00 A monthly, six-part series designed $450,000.00 to help live out the day-to-day challenges $400,000.00 $350,000.00 of married life. $300,000.00 Next session: July 29 from 7:00 -8:30 p.m. $250,000.00 $200,000.00 FINAL session: August 26 $150,000.00 $100,000.00 Nursery will be available upon request. $50,000.00 CFA Pledged CFA Goal Please RSVP at the Parish Office at 239.566.8740. 10 Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church • www.sjecc.com • [email protected] @sjecc Music for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 15 & 16, 2017 Readings: Page 181 Prelude Hymn: 650 Give Me Ears to Listen Entrance Hymn: 413 All Are Welcome Preparation Hymn: 390 Open My Eyes Communion Hymns: 195 Beautiful Savior 488 Center of My Life Closing Hymn: 497 We Have Been Told 5 PM Mass Music5 PMWorship Mass Music Aid Worship Sunday, Aid July 16, 2017: Sunday,the 1 July5th 16,Sunday 2017: 15th in Sunday Ordinary in Ordinary Time Time Opening Song 539 Come, Now Is the Time To Worship

Preparation Song Better Is One Day Matt Redman CCLI Song No. 1097451 © 1995 Thankyou Music (Admin. by

EMI Christian Music Publishing) Matt Redman All rights Reserved. Reprinted under CCLI License #2008891.

Verse 1) Verse 2) How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord almighty, One thing I ask and I would seek: For my soul longs and even faints for you. to see your beauty, For here my heart is satisfied within your Presence to find you in the place your glory dwells I sing beneath the shadow of your wings (to chorus) (repeat, then to chorus)

Communion Song 488 Center of My Life Closing Song 497 We Have Been Told Safe Environment Training Will Resume in the Fall As part of the Safe Environment Program, the Diocese of Venice of Children and Families at 800.962.2873. To report abuse requires that all employees and those volunteers who work with by Diocesan personnel or volunteers, please also call the children and/or vulnerable adults be fingerprinted and trained in Diocesan Victims Assistance Coordinator, Barbara DiCocco at Safe Environment. For further information, visit the Diocesan 941.416.6114. website at www.dioceseofvenice.org/safeenvironment. Training sessions will resume in August and the schedule will be Report all abuses against minors to the Florida Department availabe at that time. July 16, 2017 ~ Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 11 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Year A

Isaiah 55:10-11 Psalm 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14 Romans 8:18-23 he ord & Matthew 13:1-23 Life

A Precious Seed iving in the modern world can often obscure the power behind the parables of Jesus. Most of us go to the grocery store to pick up food that is nicely displayed and neatly packaged. Chances are that most of us probably do not think about the process behind the food packages. The L world of agriculture has changed so much that seeds are now sown by machines and not by people. If we are truthful, we do not even think much about the seed that was initially planted. In Jesus’ time it was very different –– just as it is in the remotest and poorest parts of our world today. Jesus lived in the arid lands of Israel. Seed was precious to the people of his time just as water is a precious necessity for our survival today. The people of Israel planted seed in the hope that it would produce vegetation and sustain their Reflection Questions lives. When Jesus offered the parable of the sower everyone would have 1. Look at the four ways in which Jesus talks understood the impact of the message. about the seed being sown and name the various ways in which you have responded to The seed is the Word of God. The sower is God and we are the soil. Jesus God’s seed in your life. uses four images to demonstrate how we respond to God’s word. The seed that falls to the path represents how people can hear the Word of 2. What does the seed represent for you? God but allow the world of sin to erase its importance. The seed that falls 3. Where do you think the listeners of Jesus’ day on rocky ground, sprouts very quickly, then immediately dies for lack of lacked wisdom? roots. Many people love to hear God’s Word and the wisdom of Jesus, but when it comes to putting the message into practice they find it too difficult 4. In what ways does the world show ignorance to because it involves sacrifice. Therefore, the message quickly dies because God’s grace? it has not taken root in peoples’ hearts. The seed that is sown among the 5. How do you lack understanding? thorns characterizes those individuals who really understand the message of 6. How does God’s Word fill you with wisdom the gospel, but they allow greed and materialism to take hold in their lives and understanding? leaving no room for the seed to bear fruit. Finally, Jesus talks of the sower who places the seed in rich soil that produces much fruit. This image tells 7. Name the ways in which the Sacraments us that we have the opportunity to make our very lives the fertile ground of enable you to implant the precious seed of God God’s loving presence. in your soul. 8. How does the Church help you to nurture The Word of God is creative –– it becomes a life-giving force within each God’s seed? one of us if we allow its power to form and shape our lives. If all of us thought of the way God would critique some of the choices we make, we 12 Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church • www.sjecc.com • [email protected] @sjecc would probably look at life in a totally different way. Our decisions would obviously reflect God’s Word if we allow His Word to be our driving force. We often hear people say: “I give you my word.” This involves trusting the person that makes the statement. Sometimes we are disappointed Reflecting by another who breaks their word. However, with God it on the Sunday Readings is different. God has given us His Word –– we can trust in with Fr. John J. Ludden, Pastor that Word to bring us hope and new life. If we do that, we will never be disappointed!

Lord, sow your seed deep within our hearts. May your Word take root in our lives. Help us to rid ourselves of the things that steal your presence and remove from our lives the things that choke us and obscure your message of true freedom. Let us bear the fruits of your mission and ministry as we strive to follow your example today. Amen.

Voices of Faith The Sower & the Seed

The mystery of life contained within the seed Waits to reveal the possibilities of its life waiting to become The vulnerability of the seed is entrusted to the sower The sower is the steward of life’s sacred gift freeimages.com Sacred seed, Word of God, Saving Grace, Mystery of Love, Hands take hold of the gift from above Eyes look out at life’s landscape Where to plant? Where to root? Seed scattered and sown in thorns Life burst forth to be choked by the barbs Trodden paths where birds wait to steal is real Of life’s tragedies of worry and greed The seed is cast out onto trampled path Stealing the treasure of God’s presence and peace Swallowed up by evil mouth’s grasp Understanding not, God’s Word forgot Sacred seed, Word of God, Saving Grace, Mystery of Love, Hands take hold of the gift from above Sacred seed, Word of God, Saving Grace, Mystery of Love, Eyes look out at life’s landscape Hands take hold of the gift from above Where to plant? Where to root? Eyes look out at life’s landscape Where to plant? Where to root? The sower finds the soil of abundance Where God’s beauty is waiting to burst forth Rocky ground with little harden soil is forlorn The seed is planted and the miracle of growth takes place Seed is sown it comes to life A hundred or sixty or thirtyfold grace Roots sprout but end in strife The joy of life lost in shallow soil The seed, God’s Sacred Word, deeply planted In the depth of heart and soul – the rich soil provides a home Sacred seed, Word of God, Saving Grace, Mystery of Love, For in the indwelling of the presence of God Hands take hold of the gift from above His grace is given, His love outpoured to all Eyes look out at life’s landscape Where to plant? Where to root? — “Peaceful Moments” by Fr. John J. Ludden

July 16, 2017 ~ Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 13 2017-2018 School Year Registration 2017-2018 School Year Faith Formation For Grades K-6 We are excited to continue using as the heart of our Faith All Registration Forms Due August 31 Formation Program, the Pflaum Gospel Weeklies. This Registration packets are available in the Parish Office and lectionary-based program brings the Gospel reading for the

Faith Formation FAITH FORMATION REGISTRATION FORM 2017-2018 upcoming Sunday alive for the kids in different age-appropriate

offices for the Office of Faith Formation ways. For more information on this 625 111th Avenue North • Naples, Florida 34108 Phone: 239-566.8740, ext. 3909 Fax: 239.449.6426 program and to watch an introductory 2017-2018 school Website: www.sjecc.com E-Mail: [email protected]

1. Our Faith Formation Program is open to all children of our parish. If you are not a member of our parish, please complete a separate year, grades Pre-K Family Parish Registration Form. Family Parish Registration Forms must be completed and submitted at the time you submit your video, please go to www.pflaumweeklies. Faith Formation Registration Form. Family Parish Registration Forms (New Parishioner Forms) can be obtained at the Church website under the window “Forms.” I am a registered St. John parishioner. through grade 12. 2. Please complete and submit a separate Faith Formation Registration Form for each of your children. Or print a copy, complete it, and com. There is also a link for parents return it through the mail (above address) with check made payable to Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church or physically deliver it along with your payment to the Faith Formation Office. Incomplete registration forms will not be accepted! Please return registration forms by August 31, 2017 as classes fill up quickly. Registration Forms 3. Registration Forms and checks can also be dropped off in the main office. Ask that they be put in Natalie’s mailbox. to sign up and receive weekly Gospel

are due August 31. STUDENT INFORMATION Guides for families. Once at www. Returning Student and WAS enrolled 2016-2017 New Student and WAS NOT enrolled 2016-2017 If new student, provide the Church name, address, and the year last attended Faith Formation: pflaumweeklies.com, go to Online ______First Name: ______Last Name: ______Shirt Size______Resources and scroll down to The Gospel Registration Date of Birth: _____/_____/______Grade (September 2017): ______Known allergies or medical concerns: At Home. You can choose to receive Forms are ALSO ______SACRAMENTAL INFORMATION these update in English or Spanish. We available to print Date of Baptism: ____/____/____ Church of Baptism: ______at www.sjecc.com. Has your child received these sacraments? (Check all that apply.) are looking forward to a great year! Baptism Reconciliation/Confession First Holy Communion Confirmation Please attach a copy of Baptism and/or First Communion certificates, if not already on file at St. John. Bienvenido a nuestras familias de habla Hispana PARENT/GUARDIAN INFORMATION Parent Parent Parent has received First Name: ______Last Name: ______Sacrament of ConfirmationEn una manera muy especial, me gustaría darles la bienvenida SEPTEMBER -First SAVE Name: ______THE______DATES__ Last Name: ______Sacrament of Confirmation Address: ______City: ______State: ______Zip Code: ______a todas nuestras familias de habla Hispana al programa Families In Christ:Home September Phone: ______10 Cell Phone: ______Email:(please write very clearly) ______Formación de Fe. Ustedes son una parte muy importante para Faith Formation ClassesSecond Email: ______Begin: ______FAITH FORMATION INFORMATION nuestra iglesia y estamos aquí para servirles. Para aquellas Sunday Classes, K-8,Please check September the grade level and preferred day17. familias que todavía están aprendiendo Inglés y necesitan Wednesday Classes, Pre -K-8,K K 1 st September 2nd 3rd 4th 5 th 20 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th PRE K-8 HIGH SCHOOL Pre-K ~ 12:10 - 2:10 p.m. (Wednesday Only) Year 1 and 2 Confirmation Sunday Morning 9:15 - 10:45 a.m. ayuda con la traducción, nuestra asistente de Formación de Fe, High School Confirmation, K-8 Sunday 9:15 – 10:45 Sunday,a.m. September Year 1 and 2 Confirmation Sunday24 Evening 6:15 - 7:30 p.m. K-8 Wednesday 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. 11th & 12th Grades Faith Formation Sunday Evening 6:15 - 7:30 p.m. Luz Lozano, es bilingüe y esta disponible para ayudar. Luz ADDITIONAL OPTION: Children’s Choir (Ages 9 - Grade 8) 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Wednesday Only nació en Guanajuato, México y se crio en los Estados Unidos. Catechists Needed for 2017-18 School Year Muy pronto tendremos todos los formularios de registración We are looking for catechists to serve the needs of our Pre-K en Español en nuestra oficina y online. ¡Gracias! Si usted está through 12th grade students. If interested, contact Natalie at interesado en ser voluntario, nosotros le daremos la bienvenida [email protected]. por su participación! – Natalie Campbell High School Confirmation Preparation Program If you have not been confirmed and you will be in Grades 9, fun and powerful vignettes that challenge their existing 10, 11 or 12 in the Fall, join us on this 2-year (30 session- perspectives on the meaning of their lives and their 15 sessions each year) plan towards preparing for the ultimate call to holiness.” — Ascension Press sacrament of Confirmation. Chosen: Your Journey Toward If you are of high school age and have already received the Confirmation is a video-based Confirmation program sacrament of Confirmation, you are welcome to join us uniquely created for students of high school age. for small group bible study or to serve as a teen This program has received great reviews from mentor to our groups. teenagers and parents throughout the country. All are welcome! Please register soon. “Filmed on locations all around the U.S. and internationally, If you have any questions, please Chosen keeps teens’ interest contact the Faith Formation with the right balance of faith, Office at 239.566.8740, ext. 3909.

Faith Formation Office Hours:Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Natalie Campbell • Director of Religious Education • 239.566.8740, ext. 3909 • email [email protected] 14 Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church • www.sjecc.com • [email protected] @sjecc Adult Faith Formation On YOUR “Device” Daily Gospel Reflections from Bishop Robert Barron Everyone’s Loving the Free FORMED app! There are a number of sites on which you can read the weekly It is easier than ever for you to enjoy our parish subscription to and daily gospels, but only one that also includes a “mini- FORMED! Just download the FREE FORMED app and start homily” from Bishop Barron. It began during Lent and Advent enjoying great video and audio wherever you go. Get the app each year when nearly 300,000 people chose to receive daily and share it with your family and friends. reflections from the Bishop. But when that season was over, This new app features people inevitably asked, “How can we receive a bit of this • a home screen with curated featured content, updated nourishment the rest of the year??” regularly, Well, you asked for it....and now you’ve got it! • easy browsing of the vast library of Catholic content, Introducing Bishop Barron’s daily Gospel reflections! • quick searches for any resource by title, keyword, author, Here’s how it works: publisher, or presenter, and STEP 1 - Sign up FREE at • easy playback of video and audio utilizing the integrated DailyCatholicGospel.com. media players. STEP 2 - Make sure you Download the free FORMED app now. receive the introductory email in your Inbox. If it’s not there, check your spam or junk folders. STEP 3 - You’ll receive a brief email each morning. Each email will contain a link to that day’s Gospel passage, so you can read the Scripture yourself. Then that will be followed by a short Once you have downloaded the app, FORMED is easy to access. reflection on the passage For parishioners who have previously registered, simply sign in, from Bishop Barron. for those who have not previously registered, simply: It’s short, simple, but extremely powerful. • Go to www.formed.org So be sure to sign up today to start • Enter our Parish Access Code, WE982F on the home receiving your reflections. page • Create your personal account with the user name/email and Enjoy! password you choose • Start enjoying the best Catholic content! ALL FORMED content is FREE of charge to all adult Saint John the Evangelist parishioners as part of the parish subscription to FORMED.

This Week’s Schedule Wednesday, July 19 Thursday, July 20 Rediscover the Genius of Catholicism ~ 7:00 p.m., Seminar Room Courageous Women ~ 9:30 a.m., Seminar Room

Jack Kindsvater, Adult Faith Formation and RCIA Coordinator. Call 239.566.8740, ext. 3918 or email [email protected] July 16, 2017 ~ Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 15 Annual Undy Sunday Weekends of August 5-6 and 12-13

n one month Collier County undergarments and see that the checks payable to Catholic public school students will items get to the schools for proper Charities of Collier County and Ireturn to school. The first day distribution — before Labor Day mark it “For Undy Sunday.” Mail of school is Wednesday, August — to needy children of Naples checks to 2210 Santa Barbara 16. With this in mind, Catholic and Immokalee, as well as the Charities of Collier County is once Children’s Advocacy Center, “…a surprising number of again sponsoring its annual Undy the Shelter for Abused Women Sunday the weekends of August 5-6 & Children, Providence House, children lack decent, or sometimes and August 12-13. Catholic Charities Social Services any, underwear…this essential and Youth Haven, where the most “August is ‘back to school’ month clothing will help the low income need has been identified. Deliveries and school staff members and will be completed within the first children get off to a good start nurses continue to remind us of 10 days of the new school year. the surprising number of young with the new school year.” — students who lack decent, or “We distribute the undergarments Don Campbell, Undy Sunday sometimes any, underwear and to the schools and centers and their socks. Therefore, we ask your personnel handle the distribution. Catholic Charities chairman assistance in bringing new and It is all handled very discreetly,” unused underwear and socks sizes Campbell said. Blvd., Naples, FL 34116 or bring it 2 through 12 (small sizes preferred) to the Parish Office during regular The department manager at the to your church or synagogue, on office hours. nearby Walmart (on the corner of the weekends of August 5-6 and 111th Ave. and Hwy. 41) has been “Last year more than 37 churches August 12-13. Your generosity in alerted and said Walmart will stock and synagogues took part in providing this essential clothing up on extra underwear and socks donating tens of thousands of will help give low income children for the Undy Sunday drive. underwear and socks, which a decent start in their new school were distributed to 40 elementary year,” Don Campbell, Catholic Cash donations will also be schools and six social service Charities Undy Sunday chairman, accepted to purchase additional agencies throughout Collier said. underwear and socks or to meet County,” Campbell said. “A other needs of low income children. This is the 21st annual event. heartfelt ‘Thank You’ to all of our For cash donations, please make Since the initial Undy Sunday in donors.” 1997, the number of participating churches has more than doubled. “Prior to Undy Sunday many of our local teachers were dipping into their own pockets to buy undergarments for their students who couldn’t afford their own,” Campbell explained. “The program started out slowly 21 years ago, but it has become a community effort. Now the children and families who receive the undergarments are happy and the teachers are happy. It is a wonderful effort getting everyone together on this very worthwhile project.” Look for the Undy Sunday boxes in the narthex of the church on the weekends of August 5-6 and August 12-13. Catholic Charities volunteers will pick up from all churches, sort and package the

16 Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church • www.sjecc.com • [email protected] @sjecc Spiritual Adoption Program Continues With Month Four The Spiritual Adoption Program is heading into the fourth month. Your commitment is to pray a short prayer daily through Christmas. MONTH 4 - Developing Baby — “I had a dream!” Well, your spiritually adopted baby now weighs six ounces. rapid eye movements (REMs) can be detected – a sign of She has fingernails and dreaming. Your spiritually adopted baby is already well- eyelashes. She has her formed, internally and externally. All she needs now is time to own unique fingerprints, gain weight and grow strong. What a miracle she is! which will remain the same until she dies. Her The next Novena of Masses for Life at St. John will be taste buds are working. Thursday, July 20 at 8:30 a.m. This Mass will be celebrated Her sense of hearing is in special observance of the life of Jesus in the womb of developing and present our Blessed Mother. For a complete schedule of the Novena at 14 weeks. There are of Masses for Life, check the diocesan website at: www. no major developments dioceseofvenice.org/respectlife. anymore. At this month

Zumba classes St. John Needs ZUMBA offered at St. John As a Catechist! Have you ever wanted to WITH enliven the spirit of our youth with your knowledge and joy of our faith? Have you aspired to strengthen the faith of others around you (and in Classses on Monday, doing so, may strengthen your Wednesday, and Saturday own)? mornings at 9 am in the Have you felt the Holy Spirit inside you, and wanted ballroom to share that joy and ? Cost is $10 a person happiness for drop in If you have felt any yearning to engage your faith in or $40 for the a deeply engrossing and tangible way, becoming a month Catechist may be just what you are looking for. The role of a Catechist is to teach the faith of the Catholic Church both by word and by example. At Saint John the Evangelist that translates to our Faith Formation program, where youth from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade are instructed and inspired to learn, love, and live our faith. We are looking for joyous and engaging men and women who would love to teach the future of our Church what we believe and why we believe it. Please contact Natalie at: [email protected] or register by email to [email protected] 239.566.8740, if you are interested. July 16, 2017 ~ Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 17 CYO & CAO EVENTS St. John Youth Help Build Home for Family of Nine in Mexico

“As a part of Saint John the Evangelist’s CYO social and house for a family of 9. We built a house in 4 days with no spiritual efforts, a group of our students and youth leaders went power tools or running water. God blessed our time with the to do God’s work in Rosarito, Mexico. St. John’s students joined family and our hard work in order to be his hands and feet to a group of students in Naples to change the lives of a Christian those in need,” said Kyle VanDuser, CYO Social and Spiritual family in need. The group’s coordinated efforts resulted in a Coordinator.

Students: Gabby Landolt, Crystal Valentine and Garth Corbett. Leaders: Zach Gibbons and Kyle VanDuser, CYO Social and Spiritual Coordinator, with most of the family.

For more information on these events please contact Kyle VanDuser, CYO Social and Spiritual Coordinator, 239.207.0537 or [email protected]. 18 Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church • www.sjecc.com • [email protected] @sjecc